markyscott
Imperial Masterpiece
End of 2017 growing season.
Ebihara maples
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When does the next growing season start? Tomorrow?
markyscott
Imperial Masterpiece
It’s super easy to figure out. Take the beginning of the Georgia growing season and subtract four months. If that’s before the end of the Houston growing season, add one day, unless there’s a cold front. Then add two days. If there’s no cold front subtract one day and you got it.
Scott
Ok... I’m going to the fridge and get a Shiner. By my calculations, your next growing season should start at about the time I finish the Shiner.unless I’m out of Shiners. Since it’s Sunday, I can’t restore my stock of Shiners until tomorrow, and I don’t want to cause your growing season to be delayed, I think I’ll go down to the basement and pull out an 1982 vintage bottle of Mouton-Rochchild as a substitute. I know, I know, Mouton is a poor substitute for a Shiner, but if it will keep your weather cycle going, I’m determined to do what I can!
markyscott
Imperial Masterpiece
Might have to dip into your reserve.
Please be careful to not delay my growing season - I don’t know what I’d do without all 13 months. Have extra on hand.
Please be careful to not delay my growing season - I don’t know what I’d do without all 13 months. Have extra on hand.
thumblessprimate1
Masterpiece
Scott, can I help yall or might I just make a mess?
The development of this tree is really cool, man!
markyscott
Imperial Masterpiece
Don’t see any Shiner in there - don’t think that counts as a reserve. That looks like a French reserve. The French flambé, brûlée, sauté, frappe and drink wine. Texans grill, smoke and drink Shiner.
Scott
markyscott
Imperial Masterpiece
Looks like some very serious help, TP. I appreciate your effort to keep the seasons intact.
S
I’m familiar with all those fancy words with the funny marks on them. That’s how you order at Starbucks, right?
Tidal Bonsai
Omono
Drinking bourgeois wine, cruising in your Tesla, and owning amazing trees...Adair, you are living the dream my friend!!!
Dav4
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I bought those wines in the late 1970s and early ‘80s. I was on an expense account and had WAY too much pocket money! Lol!!
Tidal Bonsai
Omono
Well since they are older than I am, I'm sure they all are spoiled. Crate them up and send them my way, I will dispose of them free of charge
But in all seriousness, the champagne and some of the other whites I see do not age as well as the others (bordeaux, burgundy, Cali Cab. Sauv., etc), pop them this holiday season to see if there is any life in them still. I can't believe you got cases of first growth Bordeaux for free...
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Champagne? I don’t have any of that! Gives me a headache. Yeah, there is one bottle of Mateus White! Lol!!! I don’t even know where that came from! Probably a houseguest brought it.Well since they are older than I am, I'm sure they all are spoiled. Crate them up and send them my way, I will dispose of them free of charge
But in all seriousness, the champagne and some of the other whites I see do not age as well as the others (bordeaux, burgundy, Cali Cab. Sauv., etc), pop them this holiday season to see if there is any life in them still. I can't believe you got cases of first growth Bordeaux for free...
All those are Bordeaux or California Cabernets. For whatever reason, I didn’t collect the Burgandys, but I did travel through there and visited many of the cellars there. Even took a local bus complete with pigs and chickens to go and see the famous vineyards of La Tashe and Le Romani Conte. Tiny little vineyards. Each of them can’t be much more than a half acre.
I didn’t get them “for free”, I traveled as a consultant for one of the Big 8 accounting firms. I had a paid off car, but I got a mileage allowance. And I got a meal allowance of $25 per day. I would rarely spend more than $10/day on food. When the Partner came to the job site, he’d take us out for a swanky dinner, but he picked up the tab. I could still get my $25! Anyway, I had more pocket money than I needed, so I bought cases of wine. Mixed cases mostly, but I still got a 10% discount for buying a dozen bottles. Back at that time, a typical bottle cost $6.50 up to $12. The most I ever spent on a bottle was $25/ per bottle for the 82 Mouton. The vintage of a century! It was so rare, no liquor store in Atlanta could get any to sell. I had a friend buy a case in Washington DC, and we split the case. Today, that wine is $1000/ bottle if you can find it at an auction, and $2500 in a restaurant (if they have it).
Tidal Bonsai
Omono
Isn't that a bottle of bubbly?
That sounds like an amazing trip. I think it was Madeline Puckette who broke down the cost of land, labor, bottles, corks, new oak barrels, machinery, etc. and said that no bottle of wine should be more than $45 a bottle. Supply and demand is what sends costs skyrocketing. Robert Parker calling the 82 Mouton the vintage of a century is what sent the price from $25 to $2500. Save for a special occasion and enjoy!
AlainK
Imperial Masterpiece
OK, that's fun, but I hope Scott can take back the thread
Personnally, as you can suspect, I only drink ferrous water (eau ferrugineuse):
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Personnally, as you can suspect, I only drink ferrous water (eau ferrugineuse):
Sorry, no subtitles available.
Maybe he will talk about dormant spraying for fungus!OK, that's fun, but I hope Scott can take back the thread
Personnally, as you can suspect, I only drink ferrous water (eau ferrugineuse):
Sorry, no subtitles available.
Shima
Omono
Me too, while I'm drinking it. That's the problem with weddings on a hot afternoon.
